IKDEX. 



Accident incidental to design, 154-157. 

 Agassiz, L., view of species, W, 16, 1C3, 

 191, 200 ; how ho diverges from Dar- 

 win, 16, 117,120,199; correspondence 

 . of his capital facts with Darwin's, 19^ 

 theory theistic to excess, 14, 20-22, 

 154, 200; relation of tertiary to exist- 

 ing species, 49, 110 ; on age of Florida, 

 100; on prophetic types, 116; on in- 

 telligence of animals, 172 ; on destruc- 

 tion of species, 120; on geological 

 time, 100, 162; on design in Nature, 

 154-156. 

 Alaska, Sequoia fossil in, 22S. 

 Aldrovanda, insectivorous, 322. _ 



Analogy, use of, by Darwin, 47, 105; m 

 . proof of design, 365. 

 Argyll, Duke of, on creation by law, 2T5. 

 Aristotle, his definition of Nature, 3S9 ; 



his theistic view of Nature, 890. 

 Atheism, relations of Darwinism to, 55, 

 5«, 69, 138 sq.. 154, 258, 266 5(7-, 269, 270, 

 279, 379; to doubt ordinary doctrine 

 of final causes not atheistical, 133. 

 Au2;ustine, St., on the method of crea- 



■ tion, 357. ^ ^ , 



Austin, Mrs., on the Cahfornia pitcher- 

 plant, 330. 



Bacon, Lord, view of Providence, 144. 

 Baird, Prof., on variation in the birds of 



North America, 244. 

 Bartram, WiUiam, on insectivorous 



plants, 305. 

 Beech, species of, now extending then: 



limits, 186. . 



Bentham, on the derivative hypothesis, 



236,242. ^^ , - 



Bible does not determme the mode oi 

 creation, 131, 291; a mirror of Provi- 

 dence, 142 ; interpretation of, partly a 

 matter of probabihties, 261. 



Billiard-balls illustrate the proof of de- 

 sign, 62-64, 69-74, 77. 



Birds, instinct of, 171. 



Bladdcrwort, insectivorous, 823. 



Boomerang, illustrating the method of 

 proving design, 72. 



Breeding, thorough, 80 ; tendency of, to 

 reversion, 341; close, evil effects of, 

 354. , . 



British flora, discrepancy of vioavs re- 

 garding, 34. 



Broccoli, origin of. 111. 



Brongniart, Adolpho, on distribution of 

 species in tertiary iK'ri<itl, 114. 



Brown, Kobert, Bcieulific sagacity of; 

 etc., 2S4-2N9. 



Budding, propagation by, relation ot, to 

 deterioration of varictii-s, 341. 



Butler, Bishop, definition of natural, 

 61, 160, 259. 269. 



Butterwort, insectivorous, 325; diges- 

 tion of, 325. 



Cabbage, origin of. 111. 

 California, gigantic trees of, 207, see Se- 

 quoia ; general characteristics of fiora 

 ot; 208, 21b ; unhke that of the Atlantic 

 coast, 217. 

 Canby, observations of, on sundew, 293, 



300, 322 ; on Sarracenia, 830. 

 Catastrophes in geology, 120. 

 Cattle, origin of breeds of. 111 ; increase 

 of, in South America, 89, 117; exist- 

 ence sometimes dependent on iusecta, 

 41. 

 Cauliflower, origin of. 111. 

 Caulophyllum, and relatives, dispersion 



of; 222. 

 Cause, eflUcient, three theistic >aow3 oi; 



1 53-168. 

 Cedar, species of, 188. 

 Chair, classification of, 167. 

 Chance, not admissible, 42. 55, 59, 68, 



76-S4, 147, 153, 108, 170, 23.%. 

 China, relation of flora of, to that of 



North America, 214 sq. 

 Classification, ditference of opinion upon, 

 .34; expresses judgments, not /<jc/w, 

 85,122, 184, 203, 2^9; expresses only 

 the coarser gradations, 126, 142 ; *etf • 

 Species, and Gradation. 

 Climate, as afl'octing the numbers of a 

 species, 40 > acts indirectly, 41 ; of the 

 north in cariy periods, 114, 224. 

 Climbing-plants, 331-337 ; fcid as well .i« 

 grow, 332 ; comparative advantage of 

 their habits, 334 ; cause of motion, \Wk 

 Cobbe, Frances Power, on the relation 



of Qod to the Universe, 234. 

 Cohn, Prof, on Utricularia, 824. 

 Complexity of Nature, 41. 

 Competition sharpest between allied 



species, 42. 

 Condor, rate of increase, 89. 



